Luke 8:32

32 Now there was a herd of many pigs, feeding on the hill; and the demons begged him to let them go into these. So he gave them permission.

Luke 8:32 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 8:32

And there was there an herd of many swine
About two thousand, ( Mark 5:13 ) ,

Feeding on the mountain;
(See Gill on Mark 5:11)

And they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them;
which they could not do, without his leave: and he suffered them: (See Gill on Mark 5:12) (See Gill on Mark 5:13)

Luke 8:32 In-Context

30 Yeshua asked him, "What is your name?" "Legion," he said, because many demons had entered him.

31 They begged Yeshua not to order them to go off into the Bottomless Pit.

32 Now there was a herd of many pigs, feeding on the hill; and the demons begged him to let them go into these. So he gave them permission.

33 The demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, whereupon the herd rushed down the hillside into the lake and were drowned.

34 When the swineherds saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the town and in the country;